Regulations & Work Process

 

 

B. Main objectives
         
           The Bible valley society (NGO) aims to establish and reconstruct the area designated and dedicate it to a biblical experience. It will address the desires and fascination of hundreds of millions of people for whom the Bible is central to their beliefs.
The Bible valley will combine two elements:
1) The creation of a real life Biblical experience , combining archeology and history as a traveling hands on feature
2) The creation of the Bible center as the foundation and location to the international project called "People of the world inscribe the Bible". The center will serve as a study center promoting Bible culture, values and interfaith tolerance.

  
C. People of the world inscribe the Bible - the international project

  To construct the Shrine (House) of the Bible in the Bible Valley region through the collaborative efforts of hundreds of thousands of volunteer Bible devotees.
 To archive, manage, and display the hundreds of manuscripts and Bible volumes, written in many languages, illustrating the ubiquity of the Bible;
  The Shrine of the Bible will be founded as a center Bible studies, as well as a hub for cultural and educational initiatives, which seek to explore the relevance and impact of the Bible values on historical and contemporary  human affairs;
 Each volunteer who will personally inscribe a Biblical verse in his/her own hand, will be named a Fellow of the Shrine of the Bible;
 To foster continued multinational and multi faith dialogue through the ongoing  process of inscribing the Bible;
 To enable visitors to the Bible Shrine to contribute their own handwritten verses.

3.   Work Plan
 Under the auspices of the bible valley international organ the actual implementation of the hand written inscription of the Bible will take place in the various participant countries
 The act of inscription will take place in such locations as schools, social forums, houses of worship, professional associations, social clubs, municipal and regional forums, and the like;
 Any group and/or association which commits to its members’ participation in the project will be able to take an active controlling and coordinating part in its realization;
 The Shrine (House) of the Bible will display and archive any and all inscribed volumes, including incomplete and partially completed volumes. Each sponsoring organization will be recognized and acknowledged along side its own inscribed volume;
 The project encompasses both the Old Testament and the New Testament

4.  Fund raising and financing

• The participation in the writing of the Bible is combined in the fund raising efforts with proceeds forwarded toward the establishment of the Bible Shrine (House) in the Bible valley.

• All financial and fund raising efforts will be subjected to proper auditing, with an auditor to be appointed after the official registration of the local committee with the international Bible association

Amos Oz, the outstanding Israeli author opens the Bible Handwriting in the Moscow Book Fair.

D.  Procedures, Guidelines and Regulations

1. Definitions

 Central Entity: An organization which undertakes to coordinate the inscription of the whole Bible, or be it comprised of the Old Testament or the New Testament alone;
 Any group and/or association and/or institution and /or religious organization etc., which commits to its members’ participation in the project, may be considered a “Central Entity” for the purposes of this project;
 Branch:  Any operational body/ team/ group appointed and supervised by the Central Entity in the carrying out of the inscription mandate;

2. Languages, Texts and Versions

 Any linguistic group which possesses a translation of the Bible will be invited to participate in the project;
 Each participant country and/or organization may select its own accepted text version of the Bible for inscription;
 Where several linguistic groups and/or several religious groups represent segments of the same country, each such group will be invited to take part in the project in its own language and in accordance with its preferred text version; 

3. Standardized Format

 The Bible Valley society will distribute regulatory instructions specifying the precise standardized format for the inscribed Bible volumes. A sample of these regulations is appended to this memorandum;
 The standardized format will regulate the actual writing of each verse and will not be subject to interpretation and/or modification by any of the participant Entities and/or organizations or branches;
 All linguistic groups who employ the Latin based alphabet will employ the same format. Linguistic groups with distinct alphabets [such as Chinese, Japanese, Thai, etc.] will employ formats conceived by the Bible Valley society  in collaboration with the Central Entities of the specific linguistic groups
 Any Central Entity will determine the preferred script of inscription, should it be of personal handwriting of  the volunteers or ask him to write  printing letters;

                    
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the
 deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the
 darkness.
5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night And there was
 evening and there was morning, one day.
6 Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let
 it separate the waters from the waters."
7 God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the
 expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
8 God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was

 
4. Documentation

The act of inscription is temporally distinct, whereas the written verse is eternal. Documenting the act will lend it an enduring timelessness in the following manner:

 Each individual inscriber [who will inscribe a verse in his/her own hand writing, while conforming to the standardized format] will also enter the following information:
o Name
o Contact information [address, telephone, e-mail]
o Photograph [optional]
o The verse coordinates [book, chapter, verse]
o Comments [reasons for participating in the project]
 The process will be recorded by the local operations team;
 The Bible Valley society  encourages all Central Entities and Branches to record and memorialize the inscription events on video;
 All documentary records will be housed in the Shrine (House) of the Bible. Each volume will be displayed alongside its video recorded documentary film, combining the eternal verse with the fleeting act of writing for all time;
 Documentation forms will be issued to each Central Entity who will, in turn, distribute copies to its attendant Branches;
 The documentary material will also be housed on an internet site, wherein every participant will find his/her name and the other details;

5.  Organizational Procedures

 In each participating country a Central Entities will be formed to undertake to recruit and direct inscription volunteers and operators;
 Each Central Entity will be the sole body responsible for the organization and execution of the project in its particular region and/or in its organization;
 Each Central Entity will be responsible for allocating tasks to its attendant Branches, as well as for all administrative, logistical, organizational, documentary, and financial arrangements. The Central Entities will oversee the Branches’ activities and verify that these conform to the standards and regulations stated herein. The Central Entities will be in charge of collecting and allocating funds per the financing guidelines stated herein
 The Shrine of the Bible will distribute the template formats to all Central Entities:
o Page Templates: size, lines, numbered verses;
o Test Template: provided for inscribers to test themselves before they actually write in the book;
o Documentation Templates: see Section 5 above;
 The Central Entities will issue all forms in uniform and standardized formats and will distribute them to the Branches [see appended form sample]
 The project will bear a single logo, enclosed herewith. Each participating country and/or linguistic group will display the original logo and will add its own translated logo underneath it, as long as its meaning and content remains: “People of the World Inscribe the Bible”

6. Artwork

• Each Central Entity will be free to include artwork in the volumes inscribed by their volunteers. Original artwork will be incorporated into the books of the inscribed volumes, and the Shrine (House) of the Bible will proudly display reproductions thereof on its walls;

7.  The description of the process - of how the volunteers are guided on
       inscription method, and how they fill the documentation, and how they get
       their certificates, will  be distributed to operators in their individual locations
       in due time;